tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post115368575802595084..comments2023-11-23T11:14:08.995+00:00Comments on Barbara's Bleeuugh!: Nothing Major to Report!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153906851286426532006-07-26T10:40:00.000+01:002006-07-26T10:40:00.000+01:00Apprentice, you're right about Sunset Song, it is ...Apprentice, you're right about Sunset Song, it is a beautiful novel, and I have promised myself to read the other two parts when study finishes.<BR/><BR/>I'm going at a steady pace grade wise, so fingers crossed! This is the worst year so far, in terms of the work involved, but I'm so close now! Thanks very much for the encouragement :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153865646315774932006-07-25T23:14:00.000+01:002006-07-25T23:14:00.000+01:00Oh I love Sunset Song, and Rebecca seems to be und...Oh I love Sunset Song, and Rebecca seems to be under going a revival of interest.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I hope you get through it all with flying colours, if your poetry is anything to go by I'm sure you'll do really well.apprenticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784785172285984036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153819623468165182006-07-25T10:27:00.000+01:002006-07-25T10:27:00.000+01:00BB - this is the 20thC lit course, the book list i...BB - this is the 20thC lit course, the book list is as above.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly enough, Beckett thought about declining the prize, but decided against it, as Sartre had alrady refused it in 64. However, Beckett did not attend the ceremony, sending his agent along instead to collect the prize. He remained quite uncomfortable about receiving the prize as he worried about that 'seal of approval' and I suppose being seen to become mainstream, which even now, is not something you could describe his work as being.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153818860632745862006-07-25T10:14:00.000+01:002006-07-25T10:14:00.000+01:00Haha Apprentice - thats very good about the Marx B...Haha Apprentice - thats very good about the Marx Bros. I agree with what you're saying; with Beckett awarded in 1969, but had produced a lifetime's work already. The NP does tend to go to people in their latter years as a "sainthood" as you say!<BR/><BR/>The list of texts in total is 16. But they are mostly quick reads. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, <BR/>The Short stories of Katharine Mansfield (really good find), <BR/>Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Poetry of the 30s, ed Robin Skelton, Orlando by Virginia Woolf,<BR/>Prufrock & Other Obs. by T.S. Eliot<BR/>Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier<BR/>Poetry of Frank O'Hara<BR/>Howl by Allen Ginsberg<BR/>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philp K Dick<BR/>Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig<BR/>Waiting for Godot by Beckett<BR/>Poetry of Heaney 1966-187<BR/>Paradise By A Gurnak<BR/>The Ghost Road by Pat Barker<BR/><BR/>I've been doing the course since February, in tandem with the 19thc lit course, which has 12 novels to read and study (although you can be quite selective about that one and just study the ones you choose for essays).<BR/><BR/>I'm very much looking forward to October when everything is finished and the 19thc exam is done!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153814377544892942006-07-25T08:59:00.000+01:002006-07-25T08:59:00.000+01:00Bring me up to speed - I know you're studying but ...Bring me up to speed - I know you're studying but which course is this? Devising a literary prize? It sounds a very interesting assignement, but the thought of it does scare me a little. Makes me smirk that Beckett was awarded the Nobel prize for literature on the grounds of those criteria. Of course, I'm sure it made him smirk more ;-)claireylovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16691439928758477628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20387918.post-1153786812230420892006-07-25T01:20:00.000+01:002006-07-25T01:20:00.000+01:00Very lofty stuff indeed. I think the greatest bene...Very lofty stuff indeed. I think the greatest benefit to mankind is giving us a laugh, so I'd have made the Marx Brothers Nobel prize winners, but that's just me.<BR/>I think it takes the Nobel committee a while to warm to someone, it's a bit like achieving sainthood they want to know the work has legs over a long time frame.<BR/>On the final exercise I'd go for Pat, as it seems a more accessible book, although perhaps hard to judge one book of a trilogy on its own merits. Is the 20c course book list a long one?<BR/><BR/>Hats off to you for managing all this in the school holidays.apprenticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784785172285984036noreply@blogger.com